Gerd
Bommer
Founder & Managing Partner | Business Angel at Zoenora OÜ
"Funding the Female Future - How Strong Ventures Become Visible, Credible, and Investable"
"Funding the Female Future - How Strong Ventures Become Visible, Credible, and Investable"
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Session: Funding the Female Future - How Strong Ventures Become Visible, Credible, and Investable
The funding gap for female-led ventures is often framed as a question of fairness. In practice, it is also a question of capital efficiency, decision quality, and missed opportunity — for founders and investors alike.In this keynote, business angel and founder-first investor Gerd Bommer offers a clear, unfiltered look at how funding decisions are actually made, and why strong ventures still fail to convert interest into conviction. Drawing on more than a decade of active investing and hands-on work with female founders, he dissects investor meetings from the inside: what they are designed to test, which signals truly matter, and where promising companies unintentionally weaken their own position.
Rather than focusing on pitch tactics or visibility hacks, the talk reframes funding as a question of readiness and strategic alignment. Gerd breaks down the core elements investors evaluate — people, business model, scalability, execution discipline, and capital logic — and shows how many female founders already outperform on these dimensions, yet fail to translate them into explicit leverage.
The keynote also challenges common funding myths on both sides of the table: that storytelling outweighs substance, that more meetings equal progress, or that resilience means pushing harder at all costs. Instead, it introduces a more mature approach to growth — one that values focus, health, liquidity awareness, and long-term decision-making as critical components of investability.
This session is for founders who want to approach funding with greater clarity and control — and for investors who want to sharpen their understanding of where real, underpriced potential is hiding in plain sight.
Participants leave with a sharper perspective on how to make ventures more visible, more credible, and more investable — without compromising substance, values, or sustainability.
Key Takeaways
- Reframe funding conversations — investor meetings test clarity, readiness, and strategic alignment, not encouragement, approval, or validation.
- Recognize where strong ventures dilute their own position — by chasing visibility, volume, or misaligned investors instead of sharpening focus, fundamentals, and strategic fit.
- Regain control in the funding process — knowing what can be influenced, why discipline outweighs storytelling, and how to grow without losing direction or health.
Bio
Gerd Bommer is a business angel, founder-first investor, and international business builder with more than 25 years of global experience. He delivers high-energy keynotes on Mature Minds. Young Hearts. — helping founders, leaders, and investors scale organizations and ventures without sacrificing the creativity, speed, and daring that made them successful.Gerd challenges audiences to pause, reflect, and make more conscious, disciplined decisions about growth, funding, and alignment — blending untamed energy with deep purpose. His talks inspire leaders and founders to see scaling not as a trade-off, but as a continuum of mindset evolution, clarity, and long-term value creation.
Gerd Bommer
Founder First Investor
Untamed Energy. Rooted in Purpose.
